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United States Patent | 5,130,907 |
Tortola ,   et al. | * July 14, 1992 |
A portable, compact, battery-operated light apparatus for use with a compact computer game having a LCD video screen for enhancing the visibility of the LCD screen in use, which light apparatus comprises a body with a battery compartment and having side panels which define an open viewing space and lights provided in the body element to provide for indirect lighting of the viewing space, the light apparatus comprising a portable, compact, battery-powered light apparatus and which includes ridges on the light apparatus which snap in a releasable manner onto the grooves in a compact computer game video system to releasably secure the light apparatus in position over the LCD video screen of the compact game system.
Inventors: | Tortola; Angelo (Lexington, MA); Howitt; Robert (Leominster, MA) |
Assignee: | Curtis Manufacturing Company, Inc. (Jaffrey, NH) |
[*] Notice: | The portion of the term of this patent subsequent to February 25, 2009 has been disclaimed. |
Appl. No.: | 815822 |
Filed: | January 29, 1992 |
Current U.S. Class: | 362/109; 273/148B; 345/102; 362/84; 362/191; 362/234; 362/396; 463/46 |
Intern'l Class: | F21V 033/00 |
Field of Search: | 362/109,191,84,85,23,28,234,253,396 273/855,85 R,148 B,237,269,434 368/159,188,241,281,321 340/700,705 248/918 359/48,49,83 |
4359222 | Nov., 1982 | Smith, III et al. | 359/83. |
4772986 | Sep., 1988 | McNemor | 362/28. |
4893222 | Jan., 1990 | Mintzer | 362/109. |
5091832 | Feb., 1992 | Tortola et al. | 362/109. |